Single Idea 24170

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty]

Full Idea

Kant thinks that the ideal of beauty requires no concept of what the object is. Universality demands that appreciation be purely a matter of the way the form of the object fits one's cognitive machinery.

Gist of Idea

Kant thinks beauty ignores its objects, because it is only 'form' engaging with mind

Source

comment on Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic [1790]) by Tom Cochrane - The Aesthetic Value of the World 1.3

Book Reference

Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.16


A Reaction

This confirms further my increasingly negative view of Kant. Everything in him points to idealism (despite denials by his fans), and via Hegel we arrive at the idea that our values are all 'cultural constructs', rather than responses to reality.